A LENGTHY LAWSUIT.
A lawsuit which has been in progress since the year 1450 between the local authority of Friemar. a suburb < f Gotha, in Germany, and certain millowner® in a neighbouring village, was amicably settled on February ITth after 4.78 years of constant litigation. The original cause of the suit, which has swallowed up enormous sums in law costs, wa® the action of the mill-owners in raising without authorisation the height of a dam in the river Nesse, in order to increase the supply of water to £heir mills.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6489, 8 April 1908, Page 2
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90A LENGTHY LAWSUIT. New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6489, 8 April 1908, Page 2
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